Everyone’s talking about . . . the Breaking Bad finale

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For a series with an absurd central premise on a relatively obscure channel
with one of the least likely leading men you could imagine, Breaking Bad
hasn’t done badly. Its story, for the uninitiated, concerns Walter White
(Bryan Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, whose
diagnosis with lung cancer leads him — as, hey, it would lead anyone — to
start producing crystal meth with one of his former students (Aaron Paul),
to provide for his family in the event of his death.

Plausible? Barely. But Vince Gilligan’s show has become one of the most
compelling things on TV,

Nature Nuts with Julian ClaryITV, 7pm
“I haven’t been this excited since I got stuck in a lift with the England rugby team,” says Julian Clary at the outset of this entertaining new three-part series in which the camp comedian travels around Britain meeting some of the country’s most fanatical nature enthusiasts